After this latest horrific shooting, one thing you can safely bet.

[raccoon]

Not a damn thing will change.

[Trust Buster]

1. The Right will demand more good guys with a gun. (Sarcasm)

[George II]

16. No sarcasm involved, it's going to happen.

[Soxfan58]

36. No good guy with a gun

Could have made that shot with a hand gun.

[Eyeball_Kid]

37. You're missing the point!

The Right will demand that everyone own an automatic weapon. There will never be a society SAFER than one in which there's a machine gun in every home, every apartment, every store, every place of business, every church, under every cot under every bridge.

There. Fixed it for you.

[Eyeball_Kid]

39. And the solution is...

MORE MACHINE GUNS!

[Orrex]

2. I disagree

There will be an aggressive crackdown on undocumented immigrants and noticeable uptick in blue-on-black violence.

No change to gun laws or to the general downplaying of white males as perpetrators.

[avebury]

3. If the guy has an Asian woman as a companion,

45 might add Asian countries to the no fly list. He is not the most rational President.

[Orrex]

4. He'll start tweeting insults at the president of Asia.

[uponit7771]

6. +1

[HughBeaumont]

10. +100

[brush]

17. Stop it. This is not a laughing matter, although that's morbidly funny. I had to suppress a laugh.

[Orrex]

42. It is indeed a horror beyond words

I would of course never mock the victims, their families, nor the witnesses to this massacre.

My joke was driven by fear of what our idiot pseudopresident will say in response, with no disrespect intended to anyone involved in the situation.

[mitch96]

31. Yup, North Korea..

That will fit with his rhetoric...
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[hlthe2b]

5. and Trump will use it as an excuse to avoid going to PR where he might be booed--coward....

[cwydro]

11. I knew he'd find a way to get out of that trip.

He's a coward.

[doodsaq]

7. Gun and ammo sales typically spike after mass shootings

So that's one thing that will change.

Gun manufacturers are popping the champagne corks.

[hack89]

13. I doubt it this time

the Repukes will not mention gun control. The fear of stricter laws was what drove past spikes. There is no such fear this time.

[LanternWaste]

40. More accurately, the unwarranted and unsupported fear of..."

"The fear of stricter laws was what drove past spikes.."

More accurately, the unwarranted and unsupported fear of..."

So it may yet still happen.

[Initech]

8. Alex Jones and his ilk are probably already figuring out how to spin this as a false flag.

[catbyte]

22. This

I can just see it now.

[Timmygoat]

9. NO because

Idiot in charge is still working on the NFL and vilifying Puerto Rico.

[HughBeaumont]

12. White male targeting mostly white (and likely conservative) people.

You would think that'd be a wake-up call.

It's only going to make the AW nutters double down.

[Ilsa]

18. It worries me that RWs will ascribe

liberal politics to the shooter and look to retaliate (in his mind).

[rurallib]

14. you can probably expect some imitation shootings

but of course no change in gun laws by our cowardly government.

[Mr.Bill]

15. I'm sure truck loads

of thoughts and prayers are on their way to Las Vegas from politicians all over the country.

[IronLionZion]

30. I would think some politicians would have run out of thoughts and prayers by now

since they keep sending it every time and it's been getting worse which requires even more thoughts and prayers. I bet they run out of thoughts before they run out of prayers

[bdamomma]

19. no the NRA

has gripped the balls of Congress. Horrible news when is it ever going to stop? People are dying everywhere.

[mcar]

20. Lots of thoughts and prayers

[Bettie]

21. Well, the die was cast on that

the day twenty first graders were shot to death. If that wasn't enough to change anything, a bunch of adults being shot, even white ones, won't move the needle even a little bit toward sanity.

[Hoyt]

27. Exactly.

[kytngirl]

23. Sandy Hook

I knew, just knew that if seeing those precious babies slain didn't change the gun law, nothing would. You're right, nothing is going to change.

You know what else? Seems like when we had that killing in the movie theater, the news cycle said it was the worst mass killing (by a lone gunman) on American soil. Then we had the massacre in Florida and the news cycle said it was the worst mass killing on American soil. Now Las Vegas and their saying it is the worst mass killing on America soil. Notice how the body count rises with each "worst mass killing"?

[tiredtoo]

24. Shame on us

for allowing this.

[barbtries]

25. yep.

listening to LV local coverage, it doesn't even come up. newscaster asked rhetorically, what can you do to stop something like this? well how about you demand reporting of huge ammunition purchases going to one address, how about you outlaw guns capable of a massacre like this? but you're right. and i guess that's why i'm so distraught right now. there aren't enough dead bodies to change a fucking thing.

[Hoyt]

28. +100. Shooter apparently took 6 to 8 guns, including rifles, into hotel. Why do we allow that?

[barbtries]

44. now that we know he's been there for a few days,

i suppose he could have brought it all in piecemeal. i don't know. i don't know. i'm so sad.

[MiniMe]

26. "This is not the right time to talk about gun control"

The NRA will say

[IronLionZion]

29. Or it will get worse

Shootings have been happening more often and with higher kill counts. So it's getting worse.

[barbtries]

45. 273 mass shootings in 275 days

according to Newsweek; http://www.newsweek.com/mass-shooting-almost-every-day-us-675334

[treestar]

32. Another sacrifice

To the Second Amendment. We are all called upon to be willing to die this way for our right to bear arms. They should just admit it

[BeyondGeography]

33. Yes

Like the sneering lectures right here on this board about what constitutes "assault" and "military-grade" weapons (there really is no such thing) and the pointlessness of regulating them.

[dlk]

34. Isn't This About the Time the NRA Trots Out a Spokesperson Who Says We Need More Guns?

Never mind that countries with sane gun laws don't have these mass shootings, the paranoia that permeates the gun lobby and their supporters will prevail.

[Blue_Tires]

35. Hell, gun laws will only get looser....

[Towlie]

38. "The band was rushed off the stage, the floodlights came on the crowd..."

A more clear-thinking floodlight operator might have made a difference.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/02/us/las-vegas-shooter/index.html

[AtheistCrusader]

41. Hard to say.

Of the four hundred injured, I'm curious how many were shot, vs. trampled.

Difficult to say if the lights helped or hurt..

[IronLionZion]

49. That's not fair to judge the flood light operator

the lights were intended for people to escape, not to illuminate targets for a sniper in a high rise window.

[Wednesdays]

43. Oh, there'll be changes all right

They'll ban whatever clothing the shooter was wearing.

Just remembering how schools banned black trench coats after Columbine.

[argyl]

46. If twenty little kids and six teachers being slaughtered didnt change anything, neither will this.

[Leith]

47. The reichwing's Reaction After Sandy Hook Made Me Realize

that they would do absolutely nothing to stop the madness. Not only did they not do anything, their hired trolls went on the attack.

This country is fucked up.

[AmandaRuth]

48. not really

silencers will be legalized, because that is what the national terrorist group, the NRA wants. the party they control, the R's are in power, and we all know the NRA's wish is the R's command